by David
Gay Surfers comes to Byron Bay
February 15, 2011 in News, Videos by David
GaySurfers.net Comes to Byron Bay
February 12th, 2011.
Destination – Kings Beach, Byron Bay. NSW. Australia.
Weather – sunny 28 degrees (Celsius)
Water temperature – 23 degrees
Wave height – 3 feet.
GaySurfers.net is such a great concept and so meeting Thomas and his partner for the first time was like meeting gay surfing royalty. Thomas and I had a surf the day before the scheduled event and while sitting in the lineup started chatting to another surfer who happened to be gay. He was a café owner in the area and couldn’t make the event but a great contact was made and he was introduced to GaySurfers.net.
There were four members from Byron who were able to make the event. That meant a relaxed lineup with only us out, along with a huge, ancient turtle that bobbed around about 30 metres away. The turtle became the set wave indicator.
During the surf, two other surfers paddled out who happened to be gay and hadn’t heard about GaySurfes.net. It became the first time I’d ever surfed a break with six other gay guys in the water. One month ago I thought I was the only one. The GaySurfers.net community is growing!
Check out the vid for highlights…
Ross said on 16/02/2011
good stuff, great to hear the words spreading, double thumbs up 🙂
Michael said on 16/02/2011
Gay is the new Straight! step aside all you bullys! hahaha This is great stuff!
brian said on 16/02/2011
it looks like you got in some good fun-n-da-sun time…
Kate said on 17/02/2011
And they’re all goofy!
We should do a survery on how many Gay surfers are goofy – maybe there’s a correlation?
thomasadmin said on 17/02/2011
@Kate – I wondered the same thing, and I did run a POLL on the site a couple of weeks ago.
Out of 45 Gay Surfers, 23 were goofy and 22 were regular … 🙂
Simon Hart said on 17/02/2011
should have had some naturals there to rip it up haha
Eric said on 17/02/2011
Very cool to here about another great meetup! That warm water looks so inviting too!
Robert said on 18/02/2011
That was cool! If I wasn’t in U.S. On biz – I would have had a surf with you “goofy” guys.
Kenzen said on 19/02/2011
Good on ya! Wish I’d been there!
Jase said on 19/02/2011
Some sweet little cutbacks.
John said on 21/02/2011
Looks great! I cannot wait to get up to Byron. Never been
OLIVER said on 27/02/2011
sweeet!! I’ve always wanted to go to Byron Bay, On my next vocation want to spend a mounth in AUS, surfing and getting to know the country. Hope I get lucky to meet other gaysurfers to hang out with.